Golden Trillium (World of the Three Moons, Bk. 3) - Hardcover

Norton, Andre

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0553095072 ISBN 13: 9780553095074

Publisher: Spectra, 1993

Synopsis

The creation of three of fantasy's stellar talents, the Trillium Saga is a tour de force of magic, mystery, and romance.  Now best-selling author Andre Norton picks up the story she began with Julian May and Marion Zimmer Bradley--a story that continues with a perilous quest into darkness. . .Once the famed triplet princess who defeated the evil sorcerer Orogastus, Kadiya ventures forth into the choked swamp lands of Ruewena to seek her own destiny among the Oddlings she once led in battle.  Armed with her mystical three-eyed sword, she reaches the lost city of the Vanished Ones and discovers a strange race of dream-catchers, called Hassitti, whose visions bring chilling warning of a lethal plague that sows the land with death.  Now Kadiya, with only three comparisons to aid her, journeys into the Thorny Hell, realm of the cannibalistic saurian Skritek, to stop the carrier of the evil disease.  Here they discover a portal leading to a universe of awesome darkness--an entranceway to a horror that threatens the very existence of The World Of The Three Moons.
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From Kirkus Reviews

Third in the fantasy series following Black Trillium (1990, coauthored by Marion Zimmer Bradley, Julian May, and Norton) and Blood Trillium (1992, by May solo). Triplet Kadiya of Ruwenda--bearer of a wondrous three-eyed sword and a black trillium amulet--is drawn to Yatlan, a city in the swamps abandoned ages ago by the powerful Vanished Ones. Here, she is befriended by the Hassitti, a race created by the Vanished Ones to serve them and preserve the city, and learns of a deadly plague spreading across the land. Efforts to contact her sorceress- sister Haramis come to nought, and Kadiya realizes that an evil Vanished One, Varm, is behind all the trouble. Aided by the Hassitti, Kadiya travels into the timeless realm whence the Vanished Ones have retreated. She returns, through the agency of the magical golden trillium, with helpers, including famed warrior Lamaril, now aware that Varm's minions intend to awaken four ancient Sleepers--evil warriors against whom Ruwenda cannot stand. Even though protected by great magic, somehow the Sleepers must be destroyed. A satisfying installment, independently intelligible, with at least one more (from Bradley) still to come. -- Copyright ©1993, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.

From Publishers Weekly

Norton's first solo contribution to the Trillium series adopts a slower pace and more thoughtful tone than did Black Trillium (written with Marion Zimmer Bradley and Julian May) and Blood Trillium (by May alone). The land of Ruwenda is once again endangered by the legacy of the ancient Vanished Ones, and only Kadiya, Seeker-Warrior, one of three daughters of the Black Trillium, is in a position to act. In the Place of Learning, Kadiya learns from the seers of Ruwenda's aboriginal Oddlings that a fearsome blight will fall across the land. With several Oddling friends she tracks an ancient disease carrier to a place where she can move between worlds; she finds the Vanished Ones, who removed themselves after fratricidal warfare eons ago and who may hold the secret of Ruwenda's salvation. Golden Trillium shares the characters of the earlier Trillium tales, but does not build on earlier plots. Her depictions of aboriginal life, with its dedication to nature, and of the emotional growth of a strong yet uncertain and lonely woman are finely wrought.
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About this edition

• Publisher: Spectra
• Publication date: 1993
• ISBN 10: 0553095072
• ISBN 13: 9780553095074
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 296